Roose's Companion and Guide to Washington and Vicinity [Cover title: S.A.F. Souvenir for 1892]

Washington, DC: Gibson Bros, 1892. Very Good. Washington, DC: Gibson Bros., 1892. 12mo (15.5cm.); publisher's orange pictorial cloth stamped in black; [4],viii,[7]-144pp.; photographic author portrait frontispiece, folding map mounted to front pastedown, folding collotype view of the Capitol mounted to rear pastedown, illus. throughout, including pictorial advertisements. Light wear to margins, textblock edges foxed, brief split to map fold, collotype more heavily split at fold, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy.

Souvenir edition of this popular guide to Washington presented by the National Gardeners' Club to the members of the S.A.F. at their annual convention in DC, August 16-19th, 1892. The advertisements throughout are almost exclusively for members of the florist trade or exhibitors at the convention.